Project profile — Geared for Success

• South Sudan (50.00%)
• Uganda (50.00%)

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (20.00%)
Education facilities and training (11120) (20.00%)
Teacher training (11130) (10.00%)
• Primary education:
Primary education (11220) (20.00%)
Basic life skills for youth and adults (11230) (10.00%)
• Education: Lower secondary education (11260) (20.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)

This project aims to enhance equitable and inclusive learning outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and host community children and youth, particularly girls and adolescent girls, living in South Sudan and Uganda. The project supports community-based organizations led by refugees and internally-displaced people (IDP) with technical and financial support. Project activities include: (1) facilitating an innovative, self-directed capacity assessment tool for refugee- and IDP-led organizations working on gender-responsive education; (2) designing and delivering training modules and providing technical assistance based on themes identified in assessments and on self-identified institutional gaps; (3) providing core, direct and multi-year small grants to refugee- and IDP-led organizations to help strengthen them and support gender-responsive education programming; (4) training women in refugee- and IDP-led organizations on effective leadership, human rights and peace-building; and (5) facilitating community engagement and dialogues with host communities, state institutions and policy makers on inclusive, gender-responsive education for refugee and internally-displaced children and youth. The project expects to reach an estimated at 132,040 beneficiaries, including 61,400 refugees, internally-displaced persons and host community children and youth.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved performance of community-based organizations working on gender-responsive education; (2) increased access to gender-responsive quality education for refugees and internally-displaced children and youth, particularly girls and adolescent girls, enabled by community-based organizations; and (3) enhanced collective action of community-based organizations to advance the right to gender-responsive quality education for refugee and internally displaced children and youth, particularly vulnerable groups.

Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) enrolled 17,760 learners (8,200 women) in formal or non-formal education at the pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, and post- secondary education levels; (2) 65% of enrolled refugees and internally displaced persons feel satisfied, safe, and supported by their caregivers and parents to achieve their education; (3) completed by the 6 targeted community-based organizations (CBOs) in both South Sudan and Uganda of their self-directed organizational capacity assessment and received assistance and core grants for organizational strengthening and gender-responsive education; (4) trained and coached all of the 6 CBOs on community engagement, participation strategies and practices to increase community support and participation for education, particularly for girls; (5) delivered 4 sensitization sessions on positive masculinity in South Sudan, reaching a total of 43 men; (6) delivered 4 training sessions were to 45 women in CBOs on effective leadership, gender equality, human rights, self-confidence, conflict management and peacebuilding; and (7) provided 1,279 Ugandan students (858 girls) with school materials and dignity kits to reduce school-related barriers for vulnerable learners, particularly girls.

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